Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/16

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Subject: [Leica] Leica size
From: raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)
Date: Wed Nov 16 08:21:22 2005
References: <437B3F80.3010809@aol.com>

The designer of the Rollei 35 Heinz Waaske offered the camera prototype to 
Leitz - and others - but they declined.
All the best!
Raimo K
Personal photography homepage at:
http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin@aol.com>
To: <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 4:17 PM
Subject: [Leica] Leica size


> Mark writes:
>
> To me the Leica philosophy of camera size went out with the M system in
> 1954.
> To me by far the TRUE size of a Leica is the size of a Barnack. A Leica
> thread mount camera. Fits in your pocket. Not so M. too big. Clunky.
>
> ------
>
> The Barnack Leicas won't fit in any normal pocket unless they have a 
> collapsible Elmar lens. For me the ideal pocket camera is the Rollei 35SE. 
> The lens is better than the Elmar too. Leica once built prototypes of a 
> Rollei 35 size camera but abandoned it in favor of the M.
>
> Larry Z
>
>


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